Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, Freed is stern and tough, but at the same time hopeful. He tries to keep the work in perspective, peppering his sometimes tough Vince Lombardi language with jokes. In practice, Freed the storyteller sometimes plays Freed the prankster. At a recent Tuesday evening session, Freed called on freshman Jake Bassett to entertain the team with a song...
...their own districts. Robin Tallon of South Carolina urged the Air Force to "save money" by abandoning the Florida site and coming on up to Myrtle Beach, whose base is scheduled to close next spring. Meanwhile, Sam Gibbons of Tampa pitched McDill Air Force Base, and J. J. "Jake" Pickle of West Texas talked up the Lone Star State's Bergstrom Air Force Base...
Melrose Place is ostensibly a spin-off of Beverly Hills 90210, but the link is tenuous. The new show is set in a trendy Los Angeles apartment complex, where residents include Jake Hanson (Grant Show), a hunky construction worker seen in a few 90210 episodes this season. He is still being pursued by one of the 90210 nymphets but is trying to brush her off. "Kelly," he says ominously, "I have problems that you don't even know about...
...paraphrase the immortal words of boxer Jake LaMotta, Harvard athletics in 1991-2 couldah been contendah...
...staging that arrived on Broadway last week mutes both of these satiric elements. The Rivetti brothers, as played by Jake Weber, in no way call to mind the U.S. style of mafiosi. And in the pivotal role of Jack, Brian Murray is a tower of Jell-O, reeking of insincerity from his entry, peevish rather than apocalyptic in uprooting family scandal. Director Lynne Meadow, who vastly improved on Ayckbourn's staging of his best play, Woman in Mind, here reduces a cry of outrage to an amiable snigger. The haunting final image, of the adolescent daughter frozen in narcotic guilt...